Archive for April, 2009
Naps Are Magical
Walt Disney World Diversional (Hey, Disney makes up its own words — I’m just following their example) Extravaganza — Installment 2
Okay! Feeling a little more, um, un-zombie-ish at this point. Yesterday was a full day at Animal Kingdom, and today was the same at EPCOT, but both days we had naps sometime in the afternoon — which is good because this morning we went to bed somewhat absurdly close to the time we were scheduled to get up. 
The night before, however, despite getting up yesterday at an hour at which I have been more commonly known to be going to bed, we went to bed so (understandably) early that I felt almost coherent within an hour or so of getting up. This is the first time I have been simultaneously in the room and not asleep (or, well, I guess, otherwise occupied…) since we’ve gotten here. At this point I feel like I may have to designate a blog-catch up period. :)
On that note, it’s not actually going to be now, lol. We’re just returning from a spectacular day at EPCOT, and I imagine Rick will want to post at some point some of the magnificent pictures he took yesterday at the marvelous Animal Kingdom (I now understand your enthusiasm, Kristina!), but right now I think we’re going to head to the pool before once again catapulting into bed. Despite the magic of naps, it does seem it might behoove us to move sleep up a bit on the priority list (actually putting it on there might be a start).
Before I go I’ll tell you about our fabulous room though. It’s pirate-themed (which reminds me of some of Donna‘s descriptions of the Japanese Love Hotels), and Rick did a very nice job photographing it last night before and around my making it look somewhat like a shipwreck had actually taken place there. 
As you can see, our room has beds that are in boats, a refrigerator in a barrel, and dresser drawers that look like wooden cargo boxes. It also has another smaller treasure chest dresser and a giant pirate flag curtain in front of the closet area. And our comforter has a gold and gemstone treasure on it. (I’m staying in a hotel room with emeralds on the bedspread. ;))
All right, we’re off to the pool/hot tub in our resort now. 
Tomorrow is Magic Kingdom, and then I suspect the schedule will slow down a bit. We’ve technically already been to all four major theme parks at WDW now, though we’d like to spend more time at at least a couple of them. So there should be more to come from both of us soon. :)
Have a beautiful night (or, as they say here, a magical one)!
Love,
Emerald
Yo Ho, Yo Holy Crap Am I Tired.
Walt Disney World Diversional Extravaganza — Installment 1
It’s now the terribly late hour of 10:30PM and we’re exhausted. Emerald is already sawing logs after spending the last 4 hours doing her impression of a zombie. It’s pretty good… you should see it.
Neither of us slept at all the day before our trip. Our flight left early and moved us a few hundreds of miles south where we then got checked into our room, took a bus around the resort, saw a few families that had had way, way to much Disney time and finally concluded that after almost 30 hours of no sleep, it was time to hit the parks.
We went to the Magic Kingdom first. We hadn’t eaten in about 12 hours, so Emerald ate a turkey leg while I sipped a sparkling cola beverage. There’s something sexy about a woman brandishing a meat club and bearing into it full bore. Enough of that though… time for rides!
We arrived at the Magic Kingdom a little before 3PM and did the following:
Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin- It’s like a laser shooting gallery meets disco rave festival… with Tim Allen.
The Mad Tea Party Teacup Ride- Emerald started screaming because my goal was to see if I could spin us fast enough to actual get our cup to fly off the ride. I slowed down and played nice… for the moment.
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad- I think Jerry Garcia rode this when he wrote Casey Jones.
The Haunted Mansion- I’m a big special effects geek and know how they do all the tricks on this ride… and I promptly bored Emerald to tears by sharing all of that information with her over the course of it.
Pirates of the Caribbean- It’s pirates, man… ’nuff said.
By then it was 4.30PM and we decided, instead of taking a nap, to head over to Disney’s Hollywood Studio Park. It took us an hour to get there… juggling the monorail, buses and alpaca caravan we had to take to get to the place.
By then, Emerald was woozy from hungry and very sleepy. I was completely gassed as well, but I knew I could push it a bit more before I collapsed on a toddler.
We ate a meal of sorts at the ABC Commissary… aka cheapo diner place. (If $25 for a sandwich, apple slices, some fried fish and fries with a coke is cheap.) Both of us we very tired and contemplated sleeping there, but I decided (what can I say… I’m the Decider!) we should do two rides and then call it a day.
We did something called Ride the Movies… which basically allows you to sit in thing that takes you through some famous movie scenes. It was low activity and we both loved that it required no effort. After that Emerald was walking around with her eyes closed so I took her over to ride the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. She got to sleep while standing in line and during the “warm up” parts of the ride but then was promptly awakened by being thrown down a haunted elevator shaft. In hindsight, maybe it wasn’t a good idea to jar her in her weary state… it was kinda like yelling “BOO!” at someone on drugs… it seemed like a good idea at the time.
After that we both glided back to a bus which took us back to our room. I think Emerald tried to do something constructive at that point but I don’t know… I passed out immediately.
I woke up after a bit and we went and got a pizza and some beverages. She’s now sleeping comfortably next to me, and I’ll be joining her shortly.
We’re up early tomorrow for a visit to see the legendary beasts of Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
Nighty Night!
And We’re Off!
Walt Disney World Diversional Extravaganza — Preface
Heading to the airport now for our direct flight to Orlando and a week in Walt Disney World!
This trip has been planned for so long, I can hardly believe it’s here. Mr. Rick Write and I are really looking forward to reporting back this week from the world of Walt Disney! I seem to be all packed (including having my copy of The Mile High Club: Plane Sex Stories ready to go for in-transit reading), and since I haven’t remembered yet anything I’ve forgotten to pack or do in preparation, at this point I feel (possibly blissfully ignorantly) ready to go.
Which is good, because it’s time to do just that! Namaste.
Love,
Emerald
-from Peter Pan
Swing! is Here!
After a highly anticipatory wait, made all the more so by the Swing! Blog Tour that has been taking place throughout April (today’s tour stop is Neve Black), the Swing! anthology is finally here!
Swing! Adventures in Swinging by Today’s Top Erotica Writers has been officially released today, April 24th, by Logical-Lust Publications and is available now on the brand new Logical-Lust website!
A Swing! release party is being held at the Logical-Lust yahoo group from midday until midnight Eastern time today. Stop by to celebrate with Swing! authors, editor Jolie du Pre, and Logical-Lust Publications!
I am not only honored that my story “What We Do” is included in Swing!, I am also really looking forward to reading the rest of the anthology — I have found the excerpts offered so far along the blog tour hot, gorgeous, and intriguing, and I can hardly wait to get my copy and devour them all in full!
Care to join me? ;)
Love,
Emerald
Seth swallowed. There was silence for several seconds as I held his gaze.
“Yes,” he answered finally.
-from “What We Do” (Swing! may be purchased here!)
Rick Records Record for Wrecking It
Folks using IE will have noticed that my introductory posting to the site caused the site to gag. There was some dorky XHTML that came along when I copied it out of Word. It has been fixed and shouldn’t be a problem in the future.
-Rick
What’s in a Psu… Sudo… Sue… Pen Name?
Walt Disney World Diversional Extravaganza — Foreward
When Emerald and I were knocking around the idea of my guest posting on her web site, I was mildly ponderous as to who I should post as. Until this point, I’ve been simply known as “Mr. E.” … which was fine when the sole purpose of the name tag was to simply point out that I was the male counterpart to Emerald. It also had the cool factor in that “Mr. E.” was like “mystery”… so… you know…. Wooooooo. But that didn’t seem to fit me.
Interestingly, my actual name isn’t even my real name. Meaning the name that Emerald calls me isn’t actually my name either. (No, I’m not referring to when she calls me Johnny Dumbass.) I go by a nickname. Even before receiving that nickname I didn’t go by my given name. Now that I think about it… I’ve never gone by my given name as it was given. So the exercise of selecting an alias with which to write shouldn’t be hard since I’ve had so much practice at relabeling myself.
So who do I want to be? Since Emerald writes about sexiness all the time, perhaps I should have a sexy name. I could be Dirk Turgedson. Or Peter Humpington Jr. But she’s also very serious in her work, so perhaps something that reflects that commitment to the craft. I could be Conrad Shakespeare. Or Charlie Dickenson. James T. J. Shatner might work too.
I could go for the old, funny, obnoxious names like Seymour Hiney, Dick Hertz, Phil Micrevis, Mike Hunt, or John Ashcroft. Those don’t seem to resonate with me… especially the last one. No… what to be, how to be called… hmmm.
Right now, some of you may be thinking that I’ve got a name picked and I’m forming this little story as a method of delivery, but I assure… I have no name picked out. I’m brainstorming and typing the results… well, the results that are entertaining and don’t involve Emerald, a trampoline, and lots and lots of walnuts.
And just like that… it hit. The name that I shall be posting as shall be… “Rick Write”. That name is a play on the name Richard (Rick) Wright, the keyboardist of Pink Floyd who sadly passed away last year after losing a short fight with cancer. Wright was a strong force within the band, yet remained a bit of an enigma to fans and rock followers due to his quiet and unassuming nature. He often took a back seat role and let other members of the band “drive” but always left his signature style and input within the music. That seems very much my role here on Emerald’s site. This is her show. She is free to sing and strum with the words of her art and I will be floating around in the background… sometimes quietly, sometimes not, but always there to support her and her projects.
I’m looking forward to our trip next week and posting as we go.
–Rick Write
Ps.
Other names I thought of… Joel Pituitary, Frank Zepplin, Boutros Boutros Sanchez, MC Tightpants, Montana Nevada, Jethro Q. Walrustitty, William Brackett Jones, Chris Mass, Haywood Jablowme, and Helen Shapiro.
My Swing! Blog Tour Interview
Q: Why do you write erotica and what do you love best about it?
A: Writing erotica seemed to develop in me organically. I started writing it in my mid-twenties, and it corresponded with a significant period in my own personal sexual development. I had been writing in general since I was seven, so looking back I feel like it makes sense that since I was experiencing sexuality as particularly significant at that time, it and writing merged in me.At the same time, when the idea first came to me to write explicitly about sex, it was almost as though I felt like I needed to be granted “permission” to do so — like I was looking around furtively expecting someone to say, “You can’t do that!” I had a friend who was quite a connoisseur of pornography, and I showed him the first story I wrote that included (what I thought was) explicit sex. He read it and said, “That’s it?” I laugh thinking about it now, because he was so right. I had written that story in the same furtive way, as though I was biting my lip and sneaking something in hoping I wouldn’t get caught. This friend of mine helpfully pointed out how little explicitness was actually there, and that seemed to serve as the “permission” some part of me felt that it needed. In the moment my friend offered that response, I believe something inside me relaxed, and I haven’t felt inhibited writing explicitly about sex since.
What I love best about writing erotica is the possibility that what I offer may enhance others’ sexual experience and/or deepen their appreciation/understanding of sexuality. Especially since for me the commencement of writing erotica coincided with a personal sexual evolution, I deeply appreciate the idea of erotica supporting or initiating others’ similar experience, particularly if it assists a reader in recognizing and/or relaxing out of sexual repression.
Q: Tell us about your story in Swing! Adventures in Swinging by Today’s Top Erotica Writers and please feel free to give us an excerpt. “What We Do” is told from the point of view of Victoria, who has accompanied her husband Jackson on a business trip to a conference being held by his company. Jackson is working long hours behind the scenes, and when Victoria encounters an enticing young conference participant in the hotel elevator, she does her best to seize an unexpected opportunity.From “What We Do”
Q: Name some other books where we can find your work. A: My story “With Random Precision” was recently pulished in Love Notes: A Music and Sex Anthology published by Ravenous Romance and edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel. In addition I have stories in G is for Games and K is for Kinky of Alison Tyler’s Erotic Alphabet Series, Tasting Her edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel, and Best Women’s Erotica 2006 edited by Violet Blue.“I met one of your conference participants today,” I added.
”Oh?”
“Mm-hmm. In the elevator. He was very cute. Young, a little tousled – looked like a college frat boy playing dress-up.”
Jackson snorted, aware of the effect such a look had on me. “Ah ha. Find something to keep you occupied while I’m so busy this week, did you?”
I smiled. I was glad he recognized so easily the interest at which I was hinting, though I knew his casual tone belied a true curiosity as to whether this was the case. And I understood that. I liked to know when he was planning to play too. In general, we let each other know in advance.
“It occurred to me. How do you feel about that?”
Jackson smiled somewhat ruefully. “Well, I like it better when neither of us has to resort to it simply because the other isn’t available, but I can certainly understand the temptation. I just wish it weren’t because I wasn’t here to take care of you myself.”
“But you know it isn’t, of course,” I pointed out. I knew he knew that. “If you want me to be available just for you this week, I completely understand. It’s no problem.” It was true. It had occurred to me that he might want my undivided attention this week amidst his busy and somewhat stressful schedule.
Jackson smiled. “Thank you dear. But no, it’s fine.” He handed me the room service menu and gave me a characteristic wink. “Though if you wouldn’t mind maybe confining it to the day so you can be here when I get back in the evenings….”
As I’d suspected. “Of course darling. And I didn’t even get his name. I might not even see him again.” I went to the bed and kissed him, climbing on top of him in my still-damp bikini. Jackson eased back, running his fingers along my bare skin. . . .
All of my publications are listed in the right sidebar and include websites such as Good Vibrations Magazine and Ruthie’s Club.
Q: What are you working on now? A: I have numerous short stories in progress, which seems to be the case at any given time lately. At least one of them is for a specific submission call and has a deadline coming up, and there have been a few other recent submission calls for which I plan to write stories, so presumably I will be getting those started (and ideally finished!) soon. Q: If you could offer one piece of advice to a new author, what would it be? A: Alongside the practical and technical considerations attendant to writing, I would offer an invitation to appreciate the fundamental beauty and mystery of the creative process. Beyond the tangible product that you offer, there is an energy with which you create it. Take a deep breath and trust the authentic stillness inside you from which the organic creative process emanates.Thank you for coming by! Tomorrow’s interview on the Swing! blog tour will take place at the Swing! website with author Karmen Red!
Xoxo,
Emerald
-Savage Garden “Affirmation”
M-I-C-K-E-Y H-O-R-N-Y !
Walt Disney World Diversional Extravaganza — Introduction
You may have noticed (actually you probably haven’t, but it seemed like a good way to start the sentence) that a few weeks ago I added a new category to the list on the left: “Sex+ Diversion.” This is because I noticed I was posting things that weren’t actually about writing and weren’t about activism, and really were just about, well, sex plus whatever I wanted them to be. Things like dirty messages on pickle jars, pictures of my new boots, and extolment about the marvelousness of blow jobs. So I created this new category just for those things, because they seem to call for one all to themselves — and because it seems I have been prone lately to posting what amount to delightful diversions in some way associated with sex.
Here comes another.
Mr. Emerald and I are headed to Walt Disney World (WDW) at the end of this month for a week of diversion ourselves (likely Sex+ Diversion, in fact), and Mr. Emerald came up with the idea of blogging about our WDW magical adventures in tandem. In discussing exactly how to describe this blog event, we have thrown around various descriptors like “travel diary,” “erotic memoirs,” “vacation sexscapades,” to name a few.
We decided upon none of them. So my guess is that it will be a smorgasbord of all of the above depending on what catches our fancy at the moment. Basically we’re taking the experience of a child-oriented vacation resort and making it, well…adult.
We leave on Monday, April 27 and will be there through the next Monday, May 4, which will encompass both of our birthdays. :) Mr. Emerald has posting capabilities on this site too, so sometimes he will be guest blogging his own entries, sometimes I will post mine, and sometimes we will probably write them together. (Again, smorgasbord.) Mr. Emerald will have his camera with him as well, so photos will be included. Don’t worry, I will do my best to keep any posting of gratuitous photos of me to a minimum. Mr. Emerald, for his part, will appear in no photos here due to his top-secret identity. :)
I’ll post a reminder about this again right before we leave, and then it will be off to a week of Disney Diversion for us! We’re quite looking forward to this adventure and welcome you to, if you so desire, join us along the virtual way.
Love,
Emerald
“It’s a world of laughter, a world of tears, it’s a world of hopes, it’s a world of fears, there’s so much that we share, that it’s time we’re aware, it’s a small world after all…”
-from “It’s A Small World”
